| Artificial intelligence, Robotics and Conflict |
Al Brown discusses new technologies, robotics and artificial intelligence entering armed conflict |
Al Brown |
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| Strachey Lecture: Privacy-preserving analytics in, or out of, the cloud |
This talk is about the experience of providing privacy when running analytics on users’ personal data. |
Jon Crowcroft |
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| The Replication Crisis in Biomedicine. What (kind of) crisis? |
Professor Alexander Bird, Professor of Philosophy and Medicine, King's College London, gives a talk for the Centre for Evidenced Based Medicine. |
Alexander Bird |
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| ALMA and the Birth of Stars Across Galaxies |
The 2018 Astor Visiting Lecture 14th March 2018 delivered by Professor Adam Leroy, Ohio State University. |
Adam Leroy |
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| Defence Cooperation in Europe: Driving Forces and New Formats |
Dr Matlary discusses the driving forces behind defence cooperation, the key players and cooperatives within Europe, as well as Russia’s effect on defence policy. |
Janne Haaland Matlary |
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| Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures - Can Mathematics Understand the Brain?' - Alain Goriely |
The human brain is the object of the ultimate intellectual egocentrism. It is also a source of endless scientific problems and an organ of such complexity that it is not clear that a mathematical approach is even possible, despite many attempts. |
Alain Goriely |
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| Yuval Evri: Andalusian Legacies: the role of al-Andalus/Sepharad in the political and cultural history of Israel/Palestine |
Yuval Evri discusses the uses of the the image of Al-Andalus in political and cultural discourses in the turn of the 20th Century. |
Yuval Evri, Yaacov Yadgar |
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| Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures - Euler’s pioneering equation: "the most beautiful theorem in mathematics" - Robin Wilson |
Euler’s equation, the ‘most beautiful equation in mathematics’, startlingly connects the five most important constants in the subject: 1, 0, π, e and i. Central to both mathematics and physics. So what is this equation – and why is it pioneering? |
Robin Wilson |
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| Real versus rubbish EBM: do you know the difference? |
A light hearted account of being treated by the 'wrong' guideline - with a serious conclusion about making sure this doesn’t happen. |
Trish Greenhalgh |
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| The Decision Point: Military Command in the 21st Century |
Professor Anthony King gives a talk for the Changing Character of War seminar series. |
Anthony King |
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| Adapting to Sanctions: How Russia Responded to Western Economic Statecraft |
Dr Richard Connolly gives a talk for the Changing Character of War seminar series. |
Richard Connolly |
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| What does it mean to be LGBT+ today? |
2018's annual lecture, organised by the LGBT+ Staff Network, will be delivered by Asad Dhunna, a London based marketing and communications director. Asad has written for various publications including the Guardian and the Huffington Post. |
Asad Dhunna |
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| Galia Sabar: African Migration to Israel - Chronicle of a Failure Foretold |
The history and politics of African migration to Israel |
Galia Sabar, Yaacov Yadgar |
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| Brain-machine interfaces and the translation of thought into action |
In this St Cross Special Ethics Seminar, Dr Tom Buller reflects on the causal relationship between movement goals and bodily awareness and challenges the idea that BMI-enabled movement and intentional bodily movement are equal actions. |
Tom Buller |
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| Almog Behar - Between Hebrew and Arabic |
The politics, culture, and reality of Hebrew and Arabic in Israel and beyond. |
Almog Behar, Yaacov Yadgar |
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| Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures - Scaling the Maths of Life - Michael Bonsall |
Michael Bonsall explores how we can use mathematics to link between scales of organisation in biology, delving in to developmental biology, ecology and neurosciences. |
Michael Bonsall |
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| Eugene Rogan - The Myth of the Campbell-Bannerman Report: Arab views on Israel after the Suez Crisis |
On the origins and context of a little know (for some obvious reasons) chapter in the history of the Zionism. |
Eugene Rogan |
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| Seeing and Seeing-as: Building a politics of visibility in criminology |
All Souls Seminar: 1st February 2018. |
Sarah Armstrong |
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| Launch of new website to catalogue biases affecting health and medical research |
Professor Carl Heneghan and Dr David Nunan from the Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine presented the launch of a new website that catalogues the important biases affecting health and medical research. |
Carl Heneghan, David Nunan, Sir Iain Chalmers |
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| Nordic Nationalism and Penal Order: Walling the Welfare State |
All Souls Seminar, Centre for Criminology, Univeristy of Oxford, 18th January 2018. |
Vanessa Barker |
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| Haim Yacobi - Israel, Africa: Identity, Culture and Politics |
Haim Yacobi (UCL) gives a talk on Israel in Africa, Africa (and Africans) in Israel. |
Haim Yacobi, Yaacov Yadgar |
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| Beyond accuracy: Evidence gaps and unintended consequences. Factors influencing utility of point-of-care diagnostic tests |
Point-of-care or near-patient-tests, are as these descriptors suggest, medical diagnostic tests which can be performed by a clinician, patient, or carer of a patient, without the need for samples to be transported to laboratories. |
Phil Turner |
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| Mixed methods in the real world: a messy business? |
Dr Katherine Pollard gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare seminar series. |
Katherine Pollard |
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| How To Think About Limited War (Without Limiting Your Thinking) |
'Limited War' is one of the terms making a frequent appearance in the strategic studies, international relations, and military history realms over the last 70 years. |
Donald Stoker |
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| The Role of Deterrence in Managing Great Power Competition |
This seminar will not only offer a core foundation in the concept of deterrence, from a practitioner's perspective, but explore its utility and application to present day conflict scenarios in Europe, in particular the case of Russia and NATO. |
Michael Kofman |
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| The Future of Healthcare - Evidencer and Value Based |
Muir Gray is now working with both NHS England and Public Health England to bring about a transformation of care with the aim of increasing value for both populations and individuals. Here he gives a talk on improving healthcare systems. |
Muir Gray |
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| The Culture of New Wars |
Mary Kaldor discussing her pioneering work on the concept of new wars and global civil society. Her work on the practical implementation of human security has directly influenced European and national politics. |
Mary kaldor |
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| Regional Opportunities and Challenges Facing the West in the Middle East |
The focus of this presentation is on post-ISIS Syria and Iraq, Iranian ascendancy in the region, and the reaction of the US, UK and their allies in the region. It also considers prospects for Saudi Arabian reform and leadership of the Arab world. |
Jonathan Paris |
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| 'Art and Attunement', by Professor Rita Felski, University of Virginia and Southern Denmark |
In this talk Rita Felski reported at new research on how we engage with works of art across a broad range (including cat videos) and considered the puzzling question of why we are drawn by some pieces of music, art and literature, and not by others. |
Rita Felski |
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| The Two Gentlemen of Verona |
Professor Emma Smith gives the last of her 2017 Shakespeare lectures on his early comedy, Two Gentlemen of Verona. |
Emma Smith |
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| Can Yule Solve My Problems? - Alex Bellos |
In our Oxford Mathematics Christmas Lecture Alex Bellos challenges you with some festive brainteasers as he tells the story of mathematical puzzles from the middle ages to modern day. |
Alex Bellos |
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| Digital Rhetoric, literae humaniores and Leibniz's dream |
Willard McCarty, King's College, London, gives the 2017 Besterman lecture. |
Willard McCarty |
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| Strachey Lecture: The Continuing Evolution of C++ |
Stroustrup discusses the development and evolution of the C++, one of the most widely used programming languages ever. |
Bjarne Stroustrup |
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| Core Course: Architects or Artisans? The Builders of the Medieval Cathedrals |
This lecture forms part of series entitled Introduction to the History of Art, a core course taught to the first year undergraduate History of Art students. |
Gervase Rosser |
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| Life as a trial statistician – the good, the bad and the ugly |
Professor Jonathan Cook is a Senior Medical Statistician at the Oxford Clinical Trials Research Unit. |
Jonathan Cook |
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| Oxford Mathematics London Public Lecture - Andrew Wiles |
In the first Oxford Mathematics London Public Lecture, in partnership with the Science Museum, world-renowned mathematician Andrew Wiles lectured on his current work around Elliptic Curves followed by conversation with Hannah Fry. |
Andrew Wiles, Martin Bridson, Mary Archer, Hannah Fry |
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| Avi Shlaim - A Jordanian Perspective on Israel |
Prof. Avi Shlaim reviews the history of the Jordanian-Israeli relations, and considers how Israel is viewed and understood from the Jordanian side |
Avi Shlaim, Yaacov Yadgar |
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| How we change behaviour and what to do to support it: lessons from randomised controlled trials and other research |
Professor Paul Aveyard, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences gives a talk on behavioural change in evidence based medicine. |
Paul Aveyard |
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| And then the magic happens! Can realist synthesis really be systematic? |
Dr Andrew Booth gives a talk for the Realist Reviews and Realist Evaluations short course. |
Andrew Booth |
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| The State of the Universe |
Our Universe was created in 'The Big Bang' and has been expanding ever since. Professor Schmidt describes the vital statistics of the Universe, and tries to make sense of the Universe's past, present, and future. |
Brian Schmidt |
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| Lessons From a Study in Failure - The Force Intervention Brigade and the United Nations Mission in Congo, 2012-2017 |
This seminar is concerned with the broad issues raised by the UN’s long-running mission in the DRC and what it tells us about the deeper challenges facing the UN as it continues to grapple with civil war and protection crises in different parts of Africa. |
Mats Berdal |
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| Wall Street Goes to War |
In this provocative seminar, Dr Sean McFate, author, novelist and expert in foreign policy and national security strategy, looks at the neglected area of the economics of war. |
Sean McFate |
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| The Seduction of Curves: The Lines of Beauty That Connect Mathematics, Art and The Nude - Allan McRobie |
Allan McRobie explains how the key to understanding the language of curves is Rene Thom’s Catastrophe Theory, and how remarkably the best place to learn that language is perhaps in the life drawing class. |
Allan McRobie |
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| Working 'up' and 'out': how qualitative researchers approach analysis |
Dr John MacArtney gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare seminar series. |
John MacArtney |
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| Maths v Disease - Julia Gog |
Can mathematics really help us in our fight against infectious disease? Join Julia Gog as we explore exciting current research areas where mathematics is being used to study pandemics, viruses and everything in between. |
Julia Gog |
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| Henry VI, Part 2 |
Professor Emma Smith continues her Approaching Shakespeare series with a 2017 lecture on the early history play, Henry VI, Part 2. |
Emma Smith |
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| Birth of the Ashkenazi-Mizrahi Controversy on the ‘Arab Question’ (1910-12) |
On 'the mother' of all ensuing Mizrahi–Ashkenazi ethnic controversies. |
Moshe Behar, Yaacov Yadgar |
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| Jews, Israel and Debate: Understanding Israel in the Diaspora |
Why and how should we study Diaspora Jews' relation to Israel? |
Ilan z Baron, Yaacov Yadgar |
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| Soft War: The Ethics on Unarmed Conflict |
Soft war tactics, including cyber-warfare and economic sanctions, propaganda and non-violent resistance are of increasing importance but largely unexplored in just war theory. This talk illuminates this neglected aspect of international conflict. |
Michael L. Gross |
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| The Merry Wives of Windsor |
Professor Emma Smith lectures on Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor. |
Emma Smith |
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| All's Well That Ends Well |
Professor Emma Smith lectures on Shakespeare’s comedy All's Well That Ends Well. |
Emma Smith |
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| Superconductors: Miracle Materials |
An introduction to the fascinating world of superconductors and the many surprising phenomena they exhibit, from zero resistance to quantum levitation. |
Andrew Boothroyd |
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| Quantum physics and the nature of computing |
How can we test a quantum computer? An exploration of some of the theoretical puzzles of this field and how we can investigate them with experimental physics. |
Jelmer Renema |
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| Superconductors: why it’s cool to be repulsive |
A family-friendly demonstration of superconductors in action. Fran explores the low temperatures we need to make them work, and how we can use superconductors for levitating trains. |
Fran Kirschner |
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| Cymbeline |
Professor Emma Smith continues her Approaching Shakespeare series with a lecture on one of Shakespeare’s later plays, Cymbeline. |
Emma Smith |
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| Closing the Gap: the quest to understand prime numbers - Vicky Neale |
Prime numbers have intrigued, inspired and infuriated mathematicians for millennia and yet mathematicians' difficulty with answering simple questions about them reveals their depth and subtlety. |
Vicky Neale |
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| Giving Up The Gun: Disengaging from Politically Motivated Violence in Northern Ireland |
Is de-radicalisation of former terrorists helpful or even possible? This presentation explores the processes involved in leaving social movements or disengaging from terrorist activities. |
Neil Ferguson |
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| A little known law of numbers |
Professor Jeffrey Aronson, Consultant Physician and Clinical Pharmacologist, gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare lecture series, |
Jeffrey Aronson |
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| Cassini-Huygens: Space Odyssey to Saturn and Titan |
Public Lecture organised by the Aeronautical Society of Oxford in conjunction with the Department of Physics. |
David Southwood |
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| The End of Peace and Optimism: Assessing the Changing Character of War |
A 'deliberately provocative' assessment of contemporary conflict. |
Rob Johnson |
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| Critical Appraisal and EBM in the Real World |
The overwhelming volume of evidence and its lack of relevance to patient care and decisions means health professionals require skills to sift evidence more efficiently: discarding what doesn't make a difference to focus on evidence that matters for health |
Carl Heneghan |
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| Selma Dabbagh and Courttia Newland on writing and community |
Writers Selma Dabbagh and Courttia Newland read from their work, and discuss why they write, who they write for, their imagined audiences, and how their writing relates to their identities. |
Selma Dabbagh, Courttia Newland |
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| M. NourbeSe Philip on the haunting of history |
M. NourbeSe Philip reads from She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks (1988) and Zong! (2008) as she describes her poetic development. |
M NourbeSe Philip, Marina Warner, Matthew Reynolds, Elleke Boehmer |
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| Editors and contributors, The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing |
Profs Susheila Nasta and Mark Stein speak about the genesis of their new Cambridge History project, Dr Gail Low discusses the networks and institutions of Caribbean-British writing. |
Susheila Nasta, Mark Stein, Gail Low, Henghameh Saroukhani, Florian Stadtler |
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| Aminatta Forna on writing memory and trauma in The Memory of Love |
Aminatta Forna gives a reading from her award-winning novel, The Memory of Love (2010), and discusses it with Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee. She talks about the psychology of war and healing after conflict, and about love, betrayal and complicity. |
Aminatta Forna, Ankhi Mukherjee |
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| Nadifa Mohamed on travelling, home and belonging in Black Mamba Boy |
Nadifa Mohamed reads from and discusses her debut novel, Black Mamba Boy (2010), based on her father’s travels across the Horn of Africa before settling in Britain. |
Nadifa Mohamed, Kate Wallis |
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| D-Empress Dianne Regisford presents ‘Hersto-rhetoric? Na so today!!!’ |
D-Empress Dianne Regisford presents a performance installation that explores the notion of the liberated woman from an African feminist perspective. |
D-Empress Dianne Regisford, Rev J, Erica Lombard |
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| Daljit Nagra on voice and identity in Look We Have Coming to Dover! |
Daljit Nagra reads from and discusses his celebrated debut collection, Look We Have Coming to Dover! (2007). In conversation with Dr Rachael Gilmour and the audience, he speaks about how and why he writes his poetry, and the readers for whom he writes. |
Daljit Nagra, Rachael Gilmour |
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| Bernardine Evaristo on writing Britain’s Black histories |
In conversation with Dr Zoe Norridge and Marsha Hutchinson, Bernardine Evaristo reads from and discusses her remarkable verse novel, The Emperor’s Babe (2001), which tells the story of a African girl growing up in Roman London in 211 AD. |
Bernardine Evaristo, Zoe Norridge, Marsha Hutchinson |
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| Kamila Shamsie on writing history in A God in Every Stone |
Author Kamila Shamsie reads from her 2014 novel A God in Every Stone, and discusses it with Prof. Elleke Boehmer and the audience. |
Kamila Shamsie, Elleke Boehmer |
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| Readers and Readings |
Prof. Elleke Boehmer and Dr Erica Lombard consider how our reading experiences are shaped by various factors, from publishers’ decisions about book covers to the text itself. |
Elleke Boehmer, Erica Lombard |
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| The Problem of Evil |
Oxford students discuss the problem posed by the existence of evil in the world to the Christian and Hindu gods. |
Alice Harberd, Frazer MacDiarmid, Luke Martin, Tilak Parekh |
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| Making trials more efficient: Trial Forge and how you can help |
Trials are important; very often they are also inefficient. Trial Forge aims to improve trial efficacy by identifying and then filling gaps in trial methods research. |
Shaun Treweek |
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| Using mixed methods in health psychology: Reflections on research design, epistemology, and practicalities |
In this talk, Dr Felicity Bishop will critically reflect on mixed methods research that she has conducted and discuss the philosophical and technical challenges of mixed methods. |
Felicity Bishop |
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| Double Seminar on Biomedical Technology and Moral Bioenhancement |
In this double seminar, Erasmus visitors Laurentiu Staicu and Emanuel-Mihail Socaciua discuss the rise of biomedical technology and some of the legal issues of moral bioenhancement |
Laurentiu Staicu, Emanuel-Mihail Socaciua |
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| The Law of the Few - Sanjeev Goyal |
The study of networks offers a fruitful approach to understanding human behaviour. Sanjeev Goyal is one of its pioneers. In this lecture Sanjeev presents a puzzle: |
Sanjeev Goyal |
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| Aiming for Moral Mediocrity |
In this talk, Eric Schwitzgebel considers whether it's acceptable to aim for peer-relative mediocrity. |
Eric Schwitzgebel |
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| Terra Foundation Lectures in American Art 2017: Picturing a Nation: (4) Frozen in History: The Arrival of the Kennedys at Love Field |
Professor David Lubin gives his final Terra Lecture in American Art on the Kennedys. |
David M. Lubin |
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| Terra Foundation Lectures in American Art 2017: Picturing a Nation: (3) The Ashcan Goes to War: George Bellows, Belligerence, and the Rape of Belgium |
Professor David Lubin gives his third Terra Lecture in American Art on painter George Bellows. |
David M. Lubin |
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| Terra Foundation Lectures in American Art 2017: Picturing a Nation: (2) Buried Treasure: America’s Great Book Illustrator Howard Pyle and the Silver Screen |
Professor David Lubin gives his second Terra Lecture in American Art on Howard Pyle’s illustrations of Robin Hood and pirates and their representation in movies. |
David M. Lubin |
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| Terra Foundation Lectures in American Art 2017: Picturing a Nation: (1) Riding into History, Marching into Oblivion: The Civil War, Racial Justice, and the Shaw Memorial |
Professor David Lubin gives his first Terra Lecture in American Art on the Shaw Memorial in Boston. |
David M. Lubin |
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| Trumponomics |
The Sanjaya Lall Memorial Trust held a panel discussion to welcome Sanjaya Lall Visiting Fellow Professor Kenneith Rogoff, Harvard University. Other panellists were Martin Wolf CBE of the Financial Times and Professor John Muellbauer of Oxford University. |
John Muellbauer, Martin Wolf, Kenneith Rogoff |
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| Solving the Replication Crisis in Psychology: Insights from History and Philosophy of Science |
In this episode, Brian Earp discusses the 'Reproducibility Project' and questions whether psychology is in crisis or not. |
Brian Earp |
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| Observation of the mergers of binary black holes: The opening of gravitational wave astronomy |
The 2017 Halley Lecture 7th June 2017 delivered by Professor Rainer Weiss, MIT on behalf of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration |
Rainer Weiss |
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| Ghost Imaging with Quantum Light |
Physics Colloquium 26th May 2017 delivered by Professor Miles Padgett, University of Glasgow |
Miles Padgett |
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| Pulsars and Extreme Physics - A 50th Anniversary |
Physics Colloquium 5th May 2017 delivered by Dame Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell |
Jocelyn Bell Burnell |
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| Starquakes Expose Stellar Heartbeats |
The 14th Hintze Biannual Lecture 4th May 2017 delivered by Professor Conny Aerts - Director, Institute of Astronomy KU Leuven |
Connie Aerts |
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| Strachey Lecture: Computer Agents that Interact Proficiently with People |
Professor Kraus will show how combining machine learning techniques for human modelling, human behavioural models, formal decision-making and game theory approaches enables agents to interact well with people. |
Sarit Kraus |
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| Nuclear Fusion |
Aled Walker, Justin Ball, Valerian Chen, Jason Parisi discuss nuclear fusion as part of the In Our Spare Time series. |
Aled Walker, Justin Ball, Valerian Chen, Jason Parisi |
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| On the origin and nature of values |
One of the world's leading theorist in Cosmology, Professor Ellis delivers the 2017 Tanner Lecture on Human Values |
George Ellis |
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| Murder or a Legitimate Medical Procedure: the Withdrawal of Artificial Nutrition & Fluids from a Patient in a Persistent Vegetative Condition |
In this talk, Professor John Paris asks "What is the historical meaning of "ordinary means" to sustain human life? And what has been the understanding for over 500 years of Catholic moral analysis of the obligation to sustain life?" |
Fr. John Paris |
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| Adam Smith, Poverty and Famine |
A highly critical account of Adam Smith's views on famine, which fail to recognize that you can have starvation in the midst of plenty. |
David Wootton |
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| The Sound of Symmetry - Marcus du Sautoy |
Symmetry has played a role both for composers and in the creation of musical instruments. |
Marcus du Sautoy |
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| The Butterfly Effect - What Does it Really Signify? - Tim Palmer |
Tim Palmer discusses Ed Lorenz the man and his work, and compares and contrasts the meaning of the 'Butterfly Effect' as most people understand it today, and as Lorenz himself intended it to mean. |
Tim Palmer |
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| Curiosity’s Search for Ancient Habitable Environments at Gale Crater, Mars |
4th Annual Lobanov-Rostovsky Lecture in Planetary Geology delivered by Professor John Grotzinger, Caltech, USA |
John Grotzinger |
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| Spatio-temporal Optical Vortices |
Physics Colloquium 10th March 2017 delivered by Professor Howard Milchberg, University of Maryland, USA |
Howard Milchberg |
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| Learning new physics from a medieval thinker: Big Bangs and Rainbows |
Physics Colloquium 24 February 2017 delivered by Professor Tom McLeish FRS, Department of Physics and Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Durham University, UK |
Tom McLeish |
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| The applied side of Bell nonlocality |
Physics Colloquium 17 February 2016 delivered by Professor Valerio Scarani |
Valerio Scarani |
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| Better evidence for better healthcare manifesto |
The integration of evidence with clinical expertise and patient values which underpins the delivery of high quality evidence-based medicine. |
Carl Heneghan |
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| Moving Beyond Punitivism: Anthropological Engagements with Punishment and State Failure |
Insa Koch, LSE - 19 Jan 2017 |
Insa Koch |
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